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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Standard Name: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft
Married Name: Mary Godwin
Pseudonym: Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution
Pseudonym: M.
Pseudonym: W.
MW
has a distinguished historical place as a feminist: as theorist, critic and reviewer, novelist, and especially as an activist for improving women's place in society. She also produced pedagogy or conduct writing, an anthology, translation, history, analysis of politics as well as gender politics, and a Romantic account of her travels in Scandinavia.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | English reviewers, for instance in the Gentleman's Magazine, were ready with their praise. Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 3, pp. 367-81. 374 |
| Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | Her brother John
wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Euphemia was reviewed by Thomas Ogle
in the Monthly Review, and in the Critical, the Analytical, and the European Magazine. Ogle was moderately laudatory, the Critical both laudatory and valedictory. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 511 |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to... |
| Literary responses | Jane West | |
| Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bonhote | This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft
) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 414 |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated... |
| Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | According to Patrica Spacks
, CPG
displays no real sense of personal identity in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She denies the implicit egotism of autobiography by insisting that the self is less... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
| Literary responses | Mary Hays | William Frend
had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 244 |
| Literary responses | Hannah Cowley | Wollstonecraft
's very short review in the January 1792 Analytical ignored anything controversial, but noted the play's lively sallies . . . evanescent graces. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 443 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | An extensive notice, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical Review, says this novel is distinguished among others by its quality, yet shares their general tendency to debauch the mind Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 26 |
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